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Oh wow, I like this very much. If you recall the a320 portable gaming emulator I reviewed late last year, this device is basically a larger version with a 3.5-inch screen and—get this—two external gamepads.

So it looks like a nice portable gaming system for traveling, and when you’re at home you can hook it up to your TV and …

Droid-Life.com has managed to get its hands on what appear to be leaked images of a new Verizon-based Motorola Droid handset. It looks pretty similar to the current Motorola Droid except for the keyboard, which seems to make better use of the available space by getting rid of the big gold D pad.

Console-based football games are in a tough position. EA Sports has the NFL license all locked up until 2012 so for any would-be competitor to attempt to compete with the Madden series, it needs to be radically …

Moving appropriately quickly, Warners has hired the writing team behind next summer’s Green Lantern movie to develop not only a Lantern sequel, but also a movie based on DC Comics’ fastest man alive, The Flash.

Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, who co-wrote the final script for Lantern, will write treatments for both …

Power Gig, Def Jam Rapstar, DJ Hero 2.Feels like I’ve writing a bunch about music games lately. Part of that’s because I like music. But the other part is because the genre’s evolving, adding new musical styles and modes of interaction in a bid to engage players in different ways. And, to make more money, of course.

Back in 2005, a useful communications service called GrandCentral was launched. With it, you could get yourself a single phone number that got forwarded to any or all of your other phone numbers and featured some cool bells and whistles such as different voicemail greetings depending upon who was calling you—friends, family, …

If you’ve noticed an absence of football video games featuring actual NFL teams, there’s a reason. EA Sports and its Madden franchise has had an exclusive agreement with the NFL for years now, first signed in 2005 and recently extended through 2012.

Unless there’s a sudden technology breakthrough brewing that no one knows about, movies will always be missing the core element of video gaming: pressing a button (or providing some other kind of input) to make stuff happen on a screen. Still, film can accomplish things with gaming-centric adaptations that aren’t inherent to the …

This may be one of the more expensive ways, from a hardware standpoint, to get a SNES emulator up and running but if you have an iPad and an iPhone (both jailbroken, of course) then SNES (HD) may be worth checking out.

The basic idea is that you load your SNES roms into a specific folder on your jailbroken iPad and then connect …